aortoplasty

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noun

reconstruction of a damaged aorta

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Meanings

nounaortoplasty (plural aortoplasties)

plural aortoplasties

  1. medicinereconstruction of a damaged aorta

    To date, the results of wrapping with and without concomitant aortoplasty have been promising [ 9, 15, 16, 10, 17 – 20, 3, 21 – 23, 5, 24, 25, 6, 7, 26, 8 ].

    2015 August 1, Tomasz Plonek et al., “Biomechanical analysis of wrapping of the moderately dilated ascending aorta”, in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, volume 10, →DOI

Origin

From aorta + -plasty.

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